About
Basil Ell is a Researcher at the University of Oslo's Department of Data and Knowledge Management, affiliated with SIRIUS labs. He holds a PhD from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and has held postdoctoral positions at Bielefeld University's CITEC. His work bridges Semantic Web technologies and Natural Language Processing, focusing on knowledge base population, semantic parsing, and information extraction from text/tables. He splits his time between Oslo and Bielefeld, contributing to projects like semantically enhanced Virtual Research Environments and table understanding systems.
Education: B.Sc./M.Sc. in Computer Science from Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, and IIT Madras. PhD (2015) from KIT under Prof. Rudi Studer.
Research Trends: Recent publications emphasize semantic data integration (e.g., materials informatics), link prediction in knowledge graphs, and clinical trial evidence synthesis. His work often combines RDF data structures with NLP techniques.
Labs/Teams: Active in SIRIUS labs (Oslo) and previously at CITEC/Bielefeld's Semantic Computing group.
